The Business of Death

Britain's Arms Trade at Home and Abroad

Neil Cooper

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English

I.B. Tauris
31 December 1997

Central government policies; Arms negotiation & control; Arms trade; International trade

"Why does a medium-sized European power such as Britain have such an enormous arms industry? In this book, Neil Cooper explores the lingering imperial culture which drives the attitudes behind Britain's arms business. He reviews the perceived economic and political benefits flowing from Britain's arms exports and argues that the country's economic, military and political security are actually eroded by its arms trade. Tracing the ways in which the traditional non-competitive protectionist ""preferred contractor"" approach of the pre-Thatcher years gave way to a more competitive approach in the 1980s, Cooper shows that Thatcherite free-market thinking conflicted quite fundamentally with the Ministry of Defence's in-built resistance to change."

By: Neil Cooper
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781850439530
ISBN 10: 1850439532
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 31 December 1997
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The cost-plus, bottomless bucket gravy train; rising costs and finite budgets; competition with limits; the costs and effectiveness of competition; the cost of non-Europe; the cost of British arms exports; inefficiency in procurement.

Neil Cooper is a lecturer in politics at the University of Plymouth and has written a number of works on defence policy and the arms trade.